Preservation for Home Movies

Home movies all too often get relegated to basements where they sit with recordings of made-for-TV movies or other equally-neglected videos. Of course, there are always the semi-annual walks down memory lane where people pull out the documentation of times past, but as a general rule, our home movies are going the way of dinosaurs.

Please add to the growing collection at Internet Archive. Keep your footage safe while sharing in a collective vision to archive our heritage. If you have uploaded a home movie on the archive and would like it added to this collection, please contact skip@avgeeks.com.

How and where can I find out about, and resources for, converting old home movies (filmed on super8, 16mm, and similar media) into digital format?
As in how-to, gear needed, programs used, simplest & best methods for, etc. and so-forth…. info geared towards an absolute, 100% novice when it comes to video.

It is our policy to only build a collection for users that have a minimum of 50 items on Internet Archive. Once you reached this threshold, please contact us again and we would be happy to build a collection for your items.